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So instead of getting into a tux for the gala, I put on a pair of faded jeans and a lightweight cashmere sweater and headed to the club

I have no clue how long I stayed in e Eventually, there was a knock onover to look inside at me I rolled the n and lifted my chin “What’s up?”

Leaning his forearh the open , he smirked “What’s up with ot here al here now that I’ in?”

I’d stared past hiaze back to Jerico, I lied to him “Soon”

A hint of worry flashed in his eyes, but he knowspersonal with him, so he just nodded “Have fun”

After I watched him leave, I put my car in reverse and backed out I headed ho but my meet me aroused; it just made h I welco because it’s what I deserve after the way things ended with Hannah

At least, I think they’re ended Neither of us has come out and said it, but the mere fact we’ve not spoken to each other by voice or text since I canceled our date for the gala is a good sign it’s over

My VP of reat holiday, Asher”

“You, too, Vicki,” I say with a smile

When she leaves, I turn hts drift to Hannah again She’s really all I think about, and I’ve struggled to get through s easier, but they’re getting worse

I know Hannah thinks I’m upset because she held back information from me, and I’ll admit I was a little perturbed when I learned she’d had cancer But the truth is that I’est pussy because I pushed Hannah out of my life because she terrifies me now

I see her as perhaps the best thing to ever happen to me in my life If I were to fully embrace that, I predict catastrophic pain for me down the road if the cancer were to return and she died

It’s a long shot, I know that

I researched the fuck out of Hodgkin’s Lymphoht in its earliest stage, treat the disease after the five-yearare noreatest love of my life